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HOW TO USE PRE-FILLED XML DATA IN OFFLINE EXCEL UTILITY

This year Income Tax e filing portal has provided few new facilities on their website .Few of them are listed our below.

Facility of e filing Filing of ITR-1 and ITR-4S directly on website without downloading offline utility with pre filed basic and tds data.

Filing of online form other than ITR forms

Login facility for CA

Opt for Higher security

E file in response to section 139(9)

Pre-filled XML data in offline Excel utility .

In this post we will discuss the process of using the Pre-filled XML data in offline excel utility .

What is pre-filled ITR xml ?

Pre-filled XML is a trick/utility by which you can fill your personal and tds details in offline excel utility automatically.Following main details are imported in excel utility through downloaded XML from e filing site

On right side of your main page of Excel utility a button is given with title (import your personal details from xml)

Browse the file downloaded as per sr no 2.5 above.

select and submit ,all the details will be filled in itr form automatically.

Benefit of Pre-filled XML

The benefit of the pre-filled XML data is that you all the personal details and TDS details will be filled automatically in offline Excel utility . It will reduced chances of entering wrong input data in income tax return.

Precaution

The main thing you keep in mind that main responsibility to file correct information in ITR-form remains on you .So you should verify the pre-filled data with your data ,specially with form 26AS. Some time data with e filing site is not updated as updated in form 26AS.So TDS amount should be matched with your details.Even with this drawback this utility is vcery handy.